Darrell Root writes: > > You scored a point by making me open up my copy of TCP/IP Illustrated > volume 1 by Richard Stevens ;-) Netrek made me read a lot of his "Unix Network Programming" book! Paid off nicely in my research, though, or that's always been my excuse. :) -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ahabig at umn.edu http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/